Mrs. Elsie Wells from Edmonton, Alberta, was the 1995 National Memorial (Silver) Cross Mother. During the national Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa on November 11, 1995, she laid a wreath at the base of the National War Memorial on behalf of all mothers who have lost a child in military service to Canada.

On March 8, 1951, her only son, Private Fredrick Orman Wells, was killed while on duty with the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry in South Korea.

Mrs. Wells, née Drager, was born in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, on August 17, 1906. She married Ormon Garfield Wells in April, 1927. Together, they raised four children-- Etta Elizabeth, Lois Anne, Delores Faye and Fredrick Orman. She was widowed in 1948.

Mrs. Wells died on June 28, 1996 at age 89.